Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sailed through a parliamentary
confidence motion on Saturday, boosting his clout within the ruling Communist
Party just over a year ahead of a shake-up of the country's top leadership.

HANOI - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was dealt a rare public
blow on June 11, winning the full support of less than half of members of a
parliament dominated by his ruling Communist Party in the country's first-ever
confidence vote.

Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party is not looking back on a good year. The
country’s economy is in trouble; the authoritarian leadership is split; and
what appear to be rival Communist Party factions, seeking to rouse the
dissenting voices of social media for their own ends, have unleashed a wave of
online protests that has become increasingly difficult to contain.

HANOI – Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung on Wednesday suggested
property projects that have not yet carried out site clearance should be halted
in order to settle the oversupply problem of the Hanoi real estate market.

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pledged to bring inflation down to
a decade low as the nation seeks to boost foreign investment and cope with the
aftermath of a credit boom that’s hobbled the banking industry.

It is not every day that a Vietnamese national assemblyman publicly
confronts a sitting prime minister and Politburo Standing Committee member live
on national TV, suggesting that the latter resign. Yet that was what transpired
last week, when lawmaker Duong Trung Quoc spoke out against Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung.

HANOI - At a weekend meeting with economic experts, Vietnamese Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung agreed the country needed to shore up macroeconomic
problems, but postponed recommendations on cutting back wasteful government
investment, an economist who was present said Monday.